308 EDUCATING THE HORSE. 



it may seem to one who does not understand the 

 principle on which it is used, I do not hesitate to 

 say that it is the most merciful device which 

 could be originated, a hundred times more so 

 than the brutal method of whipping a horse 

 to make him obey. In all the horses I have 

 handled I have never twice drawn blood, and the 

 only occasion when I did so was by the drawing 

 of a cord too rapidly as a man might have a rope 

 drawn through his hand. Yet by the use of this 

 bridle I have controlled and educated the most 

 vicious animals that could be found, with the 

 greatest ease to me and with the least possible 

 suffering to themselves. Whipping makes no 

 durable impression on the brain, as this does ; it 

 requires hours where this method takes but min- 

 utes ; it is often unsuccessful, which this never is. 

 I will only add that a horse never should be 

 coaxed, he is first to be subdued by fear and 

 ever after is controlled only as he has a sense of 

 the superiority of the one \vho uses him. 



